Election 2015: #milifandom vs the #cameronettes on Twitter

Twitter's political obsession of the day is ... political fandom.

Justin Bieber has his #Beliebers, One Direction have their #Directioners and now Ed Miliband has #Milifandom - a collection of young, predominantly female supporters who have taken over the twittersphere with tweets such as:

And:

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Some Milifans seem to think that the leader of the opposition has been treated unfairly by the media:

Which, others believe, may have helped trigger the growth of his online support:

Even if it did begin as a joke, it began to have unexpected consequences:

Miliband himself was positive, even if his reaction seemed rather cautious:

In a further development the #Cameronettes soon appeared:

Unfortunately for the Prime Minister #Cameronettes wasn't always as positive a hashtag as #Milifandom:

And not everyone on Twitter quite got on board with fandom politics:

But on the bright side for the PM, it could be worse:

Election 2015: Today's best Twitter commentary

21 April

Twitter's political obsession of the day is . . . former prime minister John Major.

The last Conservative leader to win a Commons majority has spoken of the 'recipe for mayhem' of a post-election agreement between the SNP and Labour.

Some questioned our willingness to bow to his authority:

While one of Major's old foes reminded everyone of his leadership record:

It wasn't all negative though, as Daily Telegraph journalist Dan Hodges pointed out a strange contradiction in the Labour party's view of the former PM:

But Major's line of attack left creator of The Thick of It, Armando Iannucci, concerned:

Major didn't get all the limelight to himself. The Green leader Natalie Bennett held a social media Q&A, even if it wasn't quite clear who was asking the questions:

Even if some of those questions had very little to do with politics:

But what really caught Twitter's attention was a digital makeover for the previously unfancied Ed Miliband.

One can only wonder what Posh would think.